Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Ragged Robin]

How can that possibly happen in the most efficient country in the known universe, Robin?  Probably a non-Swiss who caused the upset?

Exactly Cliff, the trains run on the dot and the guard makes a personal apology if it there is a one second delay but it seems that even the Swiss are subject to human error on trains at least...what on earth was someone travelling with live swine flu samples like this doing on public transport?

[Paul T]

Many congratulations Paul on passing your horticultural test - was it specific to Australian plants?

Robin,

No, it was on nursery practices... well actually on various types of plants (indoor plants, ferns, bonsai, annuals etc) in their production in preparation for sale / outdoor display.

[David Shaw]

So I take it your stamps don't actually have Scotland on them then?

Of course they do. They give us a piece of blue paper and a white pen and we put our cross on it!

[Paul T]

 

 

[Lesley Cox]

So I take it your stamps don't actually have Scotland on them then?

Of course they do. They give us a piece of blue paper and a white pen and we put our cross on it!

This is a bit insulting isn't it? Some of you may actually know how to sign your names.

Since this is my 5000th post, I can report that I did make a celebratory cake last night and was all set to photograph it then cut it for Forum distribution. However, somehow I managed to drop it before I put the frosting on - to the bench fortunately, not the floor - so it wasn't fit for human viewing. This morning I took the larger pieces to my staff at work and Roger and I are still eating the crumby bits, in dessert bowls. Just for the record, it was a chocolate/orange marble cake with a choc frosting and tastes jolly good.

[Paul T]

Yeah, sure Lesley... you accidentally dropped it!! 

 

[Lesley Cox]

I DID, I DID.

[Anthony Darby]

Bloody flu and viruses....

This Mexican 'flu ain't up to much. From the people I'e seen chatting on their phones in quarantine it isn't even as bad as a cold! The test for 'flu is easy. "There's a twenty pound note on the front lawn. It's yours if you go and get it.!" Well, if you've got the 'flu you won't because you can't move! I've had the 'flu once in 1982. Never again! 'Flu is a whole body experience I don't ever want to repeat. I had to be taken home from school as I had collapsed. Spent two weeks in bed, and it was the Christmas holidays!

[Paul T]

Anthony,

Tell that to the people who have died of it!! 

Personally, I think that the strain that has "escaped" isn't as major as the one that has done the damage in Mexico, or else it has diluted somewhere along the line and mutated into something a little less dangerous.

[Anthony Darby]

Thousands of people die from winter 'flu every year. The number of people in Mexico who have died from it changes up and down by the day. These people will have had no treatment and low resistance to the virus.

[Ragged Robin]

Thousands of people die from winter 'flu every year. The number of people in Mexico who have died from it changes up and down by the day. These people will have had no treatment and low resistance to the virus.

Exactly the point - no treatment - and we have, aren't we lucky thanks to research and availability?  There have been some severe flu viruses around this winter and friends in the UK have ended up in hospital. When I breathe in the clean mountain air here I thank my lucky stars.

[mark smyth]

I have never had the 'flu

[David Nicholson]

Nor me.

I wonder how far 'over the top' news reporting helps to generate a state of feeling un-well? Having so far been able to avoid both bird and swine flue I'm now fearful about the duck billed platypus variety!

[Lesley Cox]

Me neither but the three of us almost certainly will now. Sod's law.

On April 25th when a plane came into Auckland from Los Angeles, with around 30 students who were home from a trip to Mexico, about half had symtems and a few have been confirmed since then with swine flu but all are now recovered from what seemed a very mild dose of flu. Yet over the next couple of days, the BCC reported that NZers were just about dropping like flies (maybe not quite in those words). Thought the Beeb would have been a bit more responsible.

Apparently the Canadians have reported that a herd of pigs has tested positive for the swine flu virus. The Egyptians, who have no cases, are about to slaughter 360,000 pigs "just in case." They are Christian pigs, not Muslim.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

It's really sickening (...  ) to see how some authorities and the media are handling this whole matter...